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Bonzi buddy sings the devil went down to georgia

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'I don't do that,' he says matter-of-factly. At 71 years old, he says he's way past the target age for video games. 'It's just kind of amazing, really.'ĭaniels has never played the game, though. 'That's a whole new generation of kids that's discovering it,' Daniels says in a phone interview from a tour stop in Greensboro, N.C. 'Devil' even made it into the video game 'Guitar Hero III' last year. 'It's still one of the most popular songs around.' 'It's a favorite among our listeners,' says Mark 'The Shark' Wilson, the station's program director. Twenty-nine years later, Cat Country 107.1 FM still plays 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' at least once a day. They just didn't capture the imagination of the American public as much.' 'I have other songs that are just as good. 'It's kind of our signature song,' says Daniels, who plays The Phil this Friday. But none of them - none - have come close to a certain country-rock tune about Satan, Johnny and a fiddle contest down in Georgia. Sure, Charlie Daniels has written lots of other hit songs. Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance.

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